A small town in Texas beats San Francisco on this key metric for startups – MarketWatch

I bet I know at least partly why. West Texas Investors Club, is based in the area. Mike “Rooster” McConaughey and company have been creating all kinds of new startup jobs in a tiny area, so the percentage of jobs that are with startups is like double Silicon Valley…which has millions of jobs, compared to tiny Midland. Go Rooster and Butch!

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Government contractor arrested for stealing top secret data

Secretly arrested, held for weeks. Nothing is more threatening than the government’s ability to do this shit. Not terrorists. Not criminals. Our own government being able to make you disappear for weeks while they secretly interrogate…or do whatever they want with…you. #HabeusCorpus #FifthAmendment #miranda

http://wapo.st/2dFyDtS

Government contractor arrested for stealing top secret data

Secretly arrested, held for weeks. Nothing is more threatening than the government’s ability to do this shit. Not terrorists. Not criminals. Our own government being able to make you disappear for weeks while they secretly interrogate…or do whatever they want with…you. #HabeusCorpus #FifthAmendment #miranda

http://wapo.st/2dFyDtS

1 pot bust every 49 seconds in US – FBI

#News420 While medical marijuana may be legal in 25 states, new crime data shows that police made more than 600,000 marijuana-related arrests in 2015, according to the FBI.

A widely-cited 2013 ACLU report estimated that the total cost to taxpayers of marijuana possession enforcement in the U.S. was $3.6 billion. It also found that, while whites and blacks use marijuana at similar rates, black users were four times more likely than whites to be arrested for it.

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